Games like Nerdle: daily maths and number guessing games

Mathler is the nearest relative. You are told the answer and have to find the calculation that makes it, in six tries, with green, yellow and grey tiles like Nerdle's. It comes at four levels each day, from easy to killer, so you can pick how long it takes.

If what you like in Nerdle is the deduction from coloured feedback, the code games are next. D3C1PH3R hides a number code that grows through the week, from three digits on Monday to six on Sunday, with a daily leaderboard. Padlock gives four- and five-digit locks to crack in a set number of goes. Crack the Code and Codebreaker turn the idea around: you get other people's failed attempts and their scores, and deduce the code without guessing at all. Hexcodle uses the same feedback on a colour's hex code, which turns out to be a number puzzle in disguise.

If you would rather build the equation yourself, Abako and Parithmetic both hand you six numbers and a target, the old Countdown numbers round. Parithmetic scores you like golf against the day's par; Abako has four challenges a day and a harder round on Sunday. Logic Equations asks you to give each letter its own number so that a set of equations holds, closer to algebra than arithmetic.

For something stranger, Periodic Times Table hides a number and tells you how far off each guess is in chemical elements. Start with Mathler and D3C1PH3R beside your Nerdle; both take a few minutes and reward the same habits.